About Us

The Royal Armouries is home to the United Kingdom’s national collection of arms and armour, including artillery. As a museum we have a duty of care for these objects, to keep them, study them and increase our knowledge of them, so that this can be passed to future generations along with the objects themselves.

This knowledge can be shared with others who also collect arms and armour, we are actively involved with and support a number of groups committed to the study of the subject and its practical applications. As such we offer an enquiry service to the public and the commercial world alike and have often acted as consultants on a number of film and television projects.

However, we are more than just a museum with objects in display cases, we carry out and publish research on the topic of arms and armour, carry out research on behalf of other museums. Act as specialists in the field, and we even loan out objects to other institutions.

This may sound very dull, but we also use our knowledge and collection in a fun way. We put on events for the public, jousting, military displays, and exhibitions.

This is not the only way in which we use our knowledge and collection, we do very important work in the community, working with Youth Offending Teams, on knife and gun crime prevention. As one of the largest collections of guns and knives in the world we are uniquely placed to offer a different insight into how and why people use weapons.

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The Royal Armouries Museum shop is owned and managed by Royal Armouries Trading and Enterprises Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidary of the the Royal Armouries Museum.